Cirette

Dessert & Culinary plum

Prunus domestica L.

Availability
Material in the National Fruit Collection is available under license.

Accession No.
1948 - 010     check_circle

Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from the Centre de Recherches, Pont-de-la-Maye, France. Fruits have firm flesh with a rather acid flavour.

Accession name
Cirette

Flowering time
10th April 10% flowering
15th April Full (80%) flowering
24th April 90% petal fall

Picking time
Late July-Early August ^a

Size
small ^a

Type
Dessert & Culinary ^a

Shape
Oval-Oblong ^a

Fruit Weight
12.90 g ^a

Skin Colour
Whitish/Purple-red ^a

Stalk Length
15.26 mm ^a

Stone
Freestone ^a

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References:
a. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.